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flowers in Auguft. It is an elegant little plant. I never met with 

 it in any other place. 



1 8. The Giant-Throatwort (h), faid to be plentiful about Shap t in 

 Weftmorland*, does not grow with us where I have been. 



1 9. Great 'white Mullein, High Taper, or Coivs-Lungivort (i). On 

 old walls, about houfes, and by way-lides. Its ufual height is 

 from three to four feet. Under culture it grows to five or 

 fix feet. The flowers are in a long fpike, of a beautiful pale 

 yellow. It flowers in July and Auguft. A preparation is made of 

 it for inebriating and taking fifties, which fhews it is of a dele- 

 terious quality. 



20. The great Burnet (k), which was long in reputation as a 

 cordial, and an aftringent, but now difregarded, is frequent 

 about hedges, on the borders of woods, and by waters. It 



(h) Trachelium majus Bclgarum. Cluf. Hift. ii. p. 172. Campanula maxima, foliis la- 

 tiflimis. C. B. Pin. p. 94. Campanula pulchra a Tojfano Carolo miiTa. 7. J5. ii. p. 807. 

 Campanula foliis ovato lanceolatis, caule fimplicifiimo, floribus fecundis fparfis. Linn. Virid. 

 Cliff. 17. Hort. Cliff, p. 65. Royen. lugdb. p. 245. 



* Ray's Select Remains. Itin. ii. p. 212. 



(i) Verbafcum mas latifoliuin Juteum. C. B. Pin. -p. 239. Raj. Hift. ii. p. 1094. Syn. 

 iii. p. 287. Tourn. Inft. p. 146. Verbafcum, Tapfus barbatus, Offic. Dal. Pharm. p. 189. 

 Martyn. Tourn. ii. p. 325. Verbafcum caule fimplici floribus feflilibus clavato, foliis utrin- 

 que lanigeris. Linn. Hort. CiifF. p. 55. Verbafcum foliis utrinque tomentofis decurrentibus. 

 Virid. ClifF. p. 13. Royen. lugdb. p. 421. Verbafcum foliis ovato-acutis utrinque tomcnt)- 

 fis, floribus in fpica denfiflima feflilibus. Hall. Helv. p. 507. 508. 



(k) Pimpintlla f. Sanguiforba major. Maltb. diofc. p. 103. Icr.e. Pimpinelh fylvcfiris f. 

 Sanguiforba major. Did. Pempt. p. 105. Pimpinella Sanguiforba major. C. Ii. Pin. p. 160. 

 Hift. Oxin. iii. p. 264. Pimpinella fpica brevi rubra. Mar. Umb. p. 57. qui primus a Tra- 

 gtfelinis diftinxit. Sanguiforba fpicis ovatis. Llr.n. Hort. Clift". p. 39. Flo. Slice, p. 46. n. 

 130. Pimpinella tctraftcmon, f.liis ob'on'qe cordatis, fpica brcvi. Hall. Flelv. p. 469. 



Y 2 flowers 



